Molecular Storage.

Current storage brackets have a lifespan of a few dozen years.

It is easier for a historian to study the archives of the American Civil War (1861-1865), that the conflict in Vietnam (1955-1975), because at the time of Abraham Lincoln, all was recorded on paper while the tape drives from "70's" were disappeared.

 

In 2012, there were 3 zettabyte (3000 billion terabyte) data generated in the world, by storing all this information on the USB key 1TB, it would be possible to fill two Olympic swimming pools.

 

According to the researchers of Europeans, the synthesis DNA could become the Holy Grail of the long-term archiving of information with unprecedented storage capacity.

In 2012 a research team at the EBI (European Bioinformatics Institute), produces a synthetic DNA to encode the fragments 5 files, including a Shakespearean sonnet and an audio excerpt from an discourses of Martin Luther King, a dataset of 739 kilobytes contained in a tiny test tube.

 

 

This discovery opens up unimaginable prospects in terms of duration of data retention and storage capacity.

Regarding the shelf life, it would be of the same order of magnitude as the strands of DNA found in ice cores (old 450000-800000 years).

In terms of capacity, the molecular storage at a density of 2200 Terabyte per gram, ie that all the global data generated in 2012 would hold in a car trunk.